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[spixi]

im like if a dog that should have been put down was an alive girl

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[maxbegone]

today’s family debate is bagels. so, I’ll ask the question:

what is the best bagel flavor

plain

sesame

poppyseed

everything

whole wheat

egg

cinnamon raisin

I don’t eat bagels

more than one

other (share in the tags)

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[chemtrailmix]

with my brain small, my meat huge, my pain endless, i tread onwards

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[jcrewguy]

In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”

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[laughingcatwrites]

If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.

This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:

If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I'm not hearing about that, so... Tree law!

[vaspider]

The Studios: *speak*

Botanists and other Tree Experts:

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[sparkletindi]

Update and confirmation of Imminent Tree Law:

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He mentions later in the thread that not only do they not trim the trees annually, they’re trimmed at best once every 18 years. Supposed to be every five, and only in dormancy, which even my layman’s ass knows about tree trimming.

And yes, Universal can probably eat the fine. But it’s gonna be a whopper even if the trees survive (which is as mentioned kinda unlikely), California is a triple damage state for tree law, and it may increase dramatically if there were nesting birds in the trees.

All this to be a Captain Planet filler villain to some writers. And yes, it’s currently just the writers officially picketing there; SAG-AFTRA recommended against it for petty bullshit like this and the suddenly necessary sidewalk construction.

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[iceghosto]

A quick summary of the last 16 months

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[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

when people don’t like pacific rim for reasons like “oh it doesn’t make sense” “oh it’s dumb” FOOLS you miss the POINT which is LOVE MAKES ROBOTS PUNCH. what else do you WANT from a film. what else do you want from ART

[pequod-shipwreck]

@alter-cation @hollowedhaunt

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You love to see it. (Not the destruction of trees, obvs, but shitheads meeting their oncoming comeuppance at the hands of trees.)

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I hate how awfully hot and humid it is here in summer…

But I cannot lie and say my dumb little gremlin brain is not thinking about summer camping road trip. Even though I KNOW it’s so fuckin hot and I’m gonna be miserable. I only get so much time to adventure, and a bulk of it happens to be in the summer. Make hay when sun shines, etc. etc.

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[iinfernal]

if you are dealing with extreme heat or even just. moderate heat in your area right now. 80f/26c is when it starts getting toasty for a lot of people. if you are in a heat wave and you have not done yourself the favor of googling fucking "heat exhaustion symptoms" i am shaking you violently right now. look it up. burn the symptoms into your brain. heatstroke is no joke and it can and WILL sneak up on you before you're aware it's even an issue. ohh my god

[iinfernal]

if you are outside and it is hot and sunny and you are sweating thru your clothes or feeling tired or starting to get irrationally agitated or upset in another way or feeling nauseous or your heart is pounding etc etc if you are feeling Weird and Bad for no apparent reason while you are in a warm/hot area then i have news for you! you need to cool down! right now! oh my god.

[iinfernal]

and there's a very good chance that you're gonna think "it's not heat exhaustion, i don't feel any warmer than i have all day" when you consider it as a reason why you are suddenly feeling weirdbad for no apparent reason during a record-breaking heatwave and i would like to say. there is no harm in sitting in the shade and drinking some water even if heat exhaustion isn't the cause of whatever ailment is inflicting itself upon u. once i swore up and down to my bf that i was just kinda tired and headachy and got bitchy about the possibility of being overheated and needing to drink water. because heat exhaustion tends to make you bitchy. but i did as he asked and drank some cold water and my condition immediately improved. because it was heat exhaustion and heat exhaustion is evil and a liar. sit down. drink water

[catgirlforeskin]

When you do drink that water, make sure you’re drinking it slowly as well and taking breaks, don’t chug it